Your top 5 movies from the 80's are?
5. Weird Science
4. Taps
3. Blade Runner
2. Aliens
1. Platoon
4. Taps
3. Blade Runner
2. Aliens
1. Platoon
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sweetiepiehuggs · 41-45, F
Picklebobble2 · 56-60, M
TheGreatLeveler · 31-35, M
I'll have to take a look at my rating history at the IMDB for this one:
1. Platoon (1986)
2. Das Boot (1981)
3. Salvador (1986)
4. The Thing (1982)
5. Full Metal Jacket (1987)
Manhunter, Mississippi Burning and Born on the Fourth of July are also 80's movies that will be worth your while.
1. Platoon (1986)
2. Das Boot (1981)
3. Salvador (1986)
4. The Thing (1982)
5. Full Metal Jacket (1987)
Manhunter, Mississippi Burning and Born on the Fourth of July are also 80's movies that will be worth your while.
Picklebobble2 · 56-60, M
Hamburger hill was as depressing as hell !! But it did show the futility of what they were doing.
Platoon.....liberal ? Never saw it that way. The deer hunter i always thought was a better movie. Way too long and massively over budget it cost Cimino any future movie career i think. But did show a different side to the gung ho G:I that appears in most war stories.
Platoon.....liberal ? Never saw it that way. The deer hunter i always thought was a better movie. Way too long and massively over budget it cost Cimino any future movie career i think. But did show a different side to the gung ho G:I that appears in most war stories.
USMCGUY · 46-50, M
I think the thing that qualifies it as liberal was the anti war theme told through the eyes of both a rich white kid and his non Anglo platoon mates.
The morale of the story is that even a war that many though was justified turned everyone who came in contact with it evil. Young boys slaughtered VC and suspected VC and those who believed in peace (Sgt Elias) were killed and betrayed by those who believed in war (Sgt Barnes).
It tried to paint a picture that there are some people that are so bent on killing others that they would even kill their own kind to be able to do so.
If you want a contrast watch the true story of "we were soldiers" based on the book "we were soldiers one, and young" by Lt Gen Moore.
Platoon was less of a movie that glorified the best in fighting men and more of highlighted the dark and evil side of war.
I am not a propagandist and I don't think war is all nice and logical but to think Stone didn't have a slant to his story is to have not really understood what the movie was about.
The morale of the story is that even a war that many though was justified turned everyone who came in contact with it evil. Young boys slaughtered VC and suspected VC and those who believed in peace (Sgt Elias) were killed and betrayed by those who believed in war (Sgt Barnes).
It tried to paint a picture that there are some people that are so bent on killing others that they would even kill their own kind to be able to do so.
If you want a contrast watch the true story of "we were soldiers" based on the book "we were soldiers one, and young" by Lt Gen Moore.
Platoon was less of a movie that glorified the best in fighting men and more of highlighted the dark and evil side of war.
I am not a propagandist and I don't think war is all nice and logical but to think Stone didn't have a slant to his story is to have not really understood what the movie was about.
Picklebobble2 · 56-60, M
I never saw it as anti-war.
I saw it more as a metaphor or maybe an explanation of the struggle in Stone's mind about the myths and the lies that folk at home were told and the badness of good men, or the goodness of bad men out in the field under certain conditions.
Just my take.
I saw it more as a metaphor or maybe an explanation of the struggle in Stone's mind about the myths and the lies that folk at home were told and the badness of good men, or the goodness of bad men out in the field under certain conditions.
Just my take.
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sweetiepiehuggs · 41-45, F
OMG how could I forget Dirty Dancing
USMCGUY · 46-50, M
I didn't care for Bat 21 much at all. The people in platoon played their hearts out. Charlie Sheen (before he was winning), Willem Dafoe, Tom Berenger - everyone that had a part in the show went on to enjoy success.
sweetiepiehuggs · 41-45, F
sweetiepiehuggs · 41-45, F
ReaperofTime · 46-50, M
Platoon. Hamburger Hill. Red Dawn. Terminator. And Death Wish 3
ReaperofTime · 46-50, M
USMCGUY · 46-50, M
@ReaperofTime: it was no bueno. Yeah! Firefox, that was one that was under my radar (pardon the pun). It was good but not too 5 material in my humble opinion.
sweetiepiehuggs · 41-45, F
Oh Red Dawn was good.
bijouxbroussard · F
TJNewton · M
No they aren't